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		freilanzer on Feb 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ML would have advanced faster if another front-end... Wide adoption != faster progress. JS is a horrible language that I want to see nowhere near ML.

brap on Feb 22, 2023 [–]

Why would progress be faster in Python?

As for JS in general, I agree, but there's a (very small) subset of TS that actually makes a very nice (and complete) language, IMO.

freilanzer on Feb 23, 2023 | [–]

But at this point one can use F#, for example, and get a really nice language instead of a subset of something else.

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